tanaise | (no subject)

do we think jellyfish really 'attack' people? I mean, sharks attack people. bears attack people. jellyfish just sort of...fail to get out of the way. I think of attacks as, well, active. And even proactive. Jellyfish, not so much.
I can see that they might think in their tiny jellyfish 'brains' "hmm. I wonder if that's edible." But that's not an attack, that's just hoping they bump into food.

The tv wants me to believe they attack. But the TV has lied to me in the past, so I don't know if I'll believe it.

One of my cute boys, the coworker-of-sorts may soon be coming back to Boston. We'll see.

my meeting with my boss went well. I am apparently late for meetings (hah! I walk into meetings with my SMP or platform manager. That's automatically not late.), I do puzzles in meetings (okay, that's true. Though only for the past 3 months or so, which has made meetings much more fun), and I tell people how much money I make. (yup. And I don't really see myself stopping that any time soon, unless they pay me more and make me embarassed to talk about it, though since I tell people how much I make so they know what to ask for, it *really* pisses off my boss.) My boss also claims that because I started at a freelancer's rate, I am paid competitively, so far as tech-in-publishing is concerned, and I make more money than people who are editorial (we're paid crap for technology fields, and if I wanted to be paid editorial rates, I would have followed an editorial track) But, on the plus side, she also said good things about me, and actually mentioned the job that I want--the job that doesn't exist yet, which would be a liaison between requirements, development, and content for the platform I'm most familar with. She mentioned it twice, even, while we were discussing what sort of career track I want. (which I don't know what it is, only it's not production, and it's not really project management, but maybe it is--technical based, without actually having to do the techwork) So I still think saying, "we paid you too much to begin with" is not how you get out of giving me a raise, particularly since I've always done more work than I was hired for, but at least there are good sounding jobs that may come available while my group is changing around.

Oh, and I'm too informal in emails to her, whoever takes her job may not like getting emails that say, "yo. I should be making more money. Give me a raise." The easy way to avoid this, of course, would be to give me a raise, but I don't think that occured to her.